Adye R (5 results)

Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. pp. 187-196, Photos, 4to, Extracted from orig vol, thus begins with title page, trimmed & stapled pamphlet, else VG.

Facsimile of the most important 7th edition 1813 (& virtually impossible to find in the original) with a new 40pp.introduction, the original edition 400pp., quality hardback. 2016 reissue. The finest and rarest edition of the principal artillery manual of the Napoleonic Wars.

Black and white plates, folding map, 279pp, spine faded, some foxing particularly first and last leaves and map, neat signature of a prior owner front free endpaper. The aim of this work is to give a picture of Bonaparte's psychology at a period when the young general was at the full height of his mental and physical powers rather than a military history of the Marengo Campaign.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Facsimile of the most important 7th edition 1813 (& virtually impossible to find in the original) with a new 40pp.introduction, the original edition 400pp., quality hardback. 2016 reissue. The finest and rarest edition of the principal artillery manual of the Napoleonic Wars.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION; leather-bound, hardcover, octavo (22cm x 14cm x 4cm), pp. x, 382, [6] advertisements. English text with illustrations and maps throughout. Handsomely rebound in half calf gilt by Bayntun-Riviere, cloth sides, t.e.g., marbled endpapers, half-title, 12 full-page illustrations, 9 in the text illustrations, 3 maps/plans. Printed by Spottiswoode & Co. Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure. Mottling to cloth sides, the covers otherwise excellent. The interior very well-preserved. Armorial bookplate to front pastedowns. A beautiful copy. Notes: Adye was in the Royal Artillery, and served in the Crimea, the Mutiny, the North-West Frontier, Bhutan and Egypt, becoming Governor of Gibraltar. See Riddick 268.